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VPN and Wi-Fi Network
Not exactly on-topic, but I am sure someone in this newsgroup knows the
answer... The company I work for will supply me with a laptop so that I can work from home. I am assuming that the laptop will have Windows 10's VPN software set up so that I can connect to the company's servers. The company will supply username and password for the VPN connection. What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... -- tb |
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In article , tb
wrote: The company I work for will supply me with a laptop so that I can work from home. I am assuming that the laptop will have Windows 10's VPN software set up so that I can connect to the company's servers. The company will supply username and password for the VPN connection. sounds good. What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? either that, or use an ethernet cable. you have to be connected to the internet somehow. Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? exactly. The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... try to remember, because otherwise, you'll need to reset and reconfigure the router or be stuck using a cable. |
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On 17/03/2020 17:28, tb wrote:
Not exactly on-topic, but I am sure someone in this newsgroup knows the answer... The company I work for will supply me with a laptop so that I can work from home. I am assuming that the laptop will have Windows 10's VPN software set up so that I can connect to the company's servers. The company will supply username and password for the VPN connection. What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Yes, you have to connect to your home wifi first. That's your connection to the outside world. And see your VPN connection as a private path from your laptop at home to the server at your work. If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. Success! Fokke |
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In article , Fokke Nauta
wrote: What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Yes, you have to connect to your home wifi first. That's your connection to the outside world. And see your VPN connection as a private path from your laptop at home to the server at your work. If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? |
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On 2020-03-17 12:08 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Fokke Nauta wrote: What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Yes, you have to connect to your home wifi first. That's your connection to the outside world. And see your VPN connection as a private path from your laptop at home to the server at your work. If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? Whatever happened to pencils and paper to record your passwords? Rene |
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On 17/03/2020 18:35, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-03-17 12:08 p.m., nospam wrote: In article , Fokke Nauta wrote: What I don't understand is this:Â* Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first?Â* Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Yes, you have to connect to your home wifi first. That's your connection to the outside world. And see your VPN connection as a private path from your laptop at home to the server at your work. If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? The manual of the router. Whatever happened to pencils and paper to record your passwords? Rene |
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In article , Fokke Nauta
wrote: If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? The manual of the router. that will have the default password, which will be of no help if he changed it, which is normally required. in some cases, the isp configures it and only they know the password. |
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In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote: Whatever happened to pencils and paper to record your passwords? long replaced with far more secure and more convenient password managers. |
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:23:33 -0400, nospam wrote:
In article , Fokke Nauta wrote: If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? The manual of the router. that will have the default password, which will be of no help if he changed it, which is normally required. in some cases, the isp configures it and only they know the password. A factory reset of the router restores the default password. |
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In article , mechanic
wrote: If you forgot the wifi password, you'll need to log into your router. You can either see your password or change it. In the last case you will need to change the password in all other wifi connected equipment as well. if he doesn't remember the wifi password, what makes you think he remembers the router password?? The manual of the router. that will have the default password, which will be of no help if he changed it, which is normally required. in some cases, the isp configures it and only they know the password. A factory reset of the router restores the default password. along with all settings, requiring it to be reconfigured again, which is what i said in my original post. |
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On 17/03/2020 16:28, tb wrote:
The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Well you can always reset the router to factory settings and then you can connect to it quite easily by connecting a cable and typing: 192.168.1.1 192.168.0.1 These two addresses are quite common on most browsers AFTER you have set it to factory settings. Now your question is how to reset the router? It depends on your intelligence but most routers have a very small hole in which you need to insert a pin of some kind that can be inserted. Some man have small private parts in the same way as some have small hands but they get offended when you tell them this. Therefore, I'll not mention this to you. Have you thought of hiring a technician? Just take your router to your nearest computer shop and they will reset it for you for FREE. It takes 2 seconds to do it. Is this your new nym on these newsgroups? I don't see many posts here but yours simply popped up so clearly the kill-filter missed you some how!! Path: news.netfront.net!news.unit0.net!3.eu.feeder.erje. net!feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "tb" Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: VPN and Wi-Fi Network Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: albasani.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net RdHJ8kZa3pSkaNGdtPdnvzLVvDvT2yIB4y+mwTk6PjPDzIAfTH uC7vD5k6nxSv1RQEdVCN4DcV0MaZC5W7FGZw== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="8w8dmOdcWhA0puQqshXWmCWZtwopr+wbxbU9C4nSRaVv prXcVc68pBAj4M+hzqwPKWhq+ljeJzwwkYvBTAEdBsUAqpVeAj/xjE/+cKMP/Nmzoa2aWMGCqoxAOc0U0TjU"; " User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h0CZuE0S1Kh22Av1vKdoZ+lFocY= X-Ref: reader.albasani.net(80) ~XNS:000002EC Xref: news.netfront.net alt.comp.os.windows-10:6477 -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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tb wrote:
Not exactly on-topic, but I am sure someone in this newsgroup knows the answer... The company I work for will supply me with a laptop so that I can work from home. I am assuming that the laptop will have Windows 10's VPN software set up so that I can connect to the company's servers. The company will supply username and password for the VPN connection. What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Do you currently have to manually enter the wifi password every time you want to use the internet now? IMO, that would be a horrible situation. |
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On 3/17/2020 at 2:36:06 PM Paul in Houston TX wrote:
tb wrote: Not exactly on-topic, but I am sure someone in this newsgroup knows the answer... The company I work for will supply me with a laptop so that I can work from home. I am assuming that the laptop will have Windows 10's VPN software set up so that I can connect to the company's servers. The company will supply username and password for the VPN connection. What I don't understand is this: Do I have to sign-in to my home Wi-Fi network with the laptop first? Otherwise, how does the VPN software connect to the Internet if I don't first sign in to my home Wi-Fi network? The reason I am asking is because I have forgotten what the Wi-Fi password is... Do you currently have to manually enter the wifi password every time you want to use the internet now? IMO, that would be a horrible situation. No, no... The issue is that the company will be giving me one of their laptops to work from home. Such laptop obviously has never logged into my home Wi-Fi network, therefore I will need the Wi-Fi password for the initial login. -- tb |
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tb wrote:
No, no... The issue is that the company will be giving me one of their laptops to work from home. Such laptop obviously has never logged into my home Wi-Fi network, therefore I will need the Wi-Fi password for the initial login. Many ISP supplied modem/routers have the SSID and password printed on a label of the device unless you have changed it for a custom one (something I would do automatically). If not your only other options are to connect with an ethernet cable where no password is required, or do a factory reset on device (but before you do look up user manual online for the device's default passwords BEFORE doing the reset) -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On 2020-03-17 1:23 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Rene Lamontagne wrote: Whatever happened to pencils and paper to record your passwords? long replaced with far more secure and more convenient password managers. You mean I'm behind the times? Oh Dear!!! :-) Rene |
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